Queen's Park Meeting Hall
QUEEN'S PARK MEETING HALL, 578-580, HARROW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262909
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Queen's Park Meeting Hall
- Statutory Address:
- QUEEN'S PARK MEETING HALL, 578-580, HARROW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262909
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Queen's Park Meeting Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUEEN'S PARK MEETING HALL, 578-580, HARROW ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- QUEEN'S PARK MEETING HALL, 578-580, HARROW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Queen's Park
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 24575 82358
Details
TQ 2482 SE HARROW ROAD 1900-/28/10089 Nos. 578-580 Queen's Park Meeting Hall . GV II Recreation and meeting hall, 1883-4. Architect, Rowland Plumbe for the Artizans, Labourers and General Dwellings Company. The style is transitional between Gothic and Queen Anne. Red brick with a pitched, tiled roof The building consists of a first floor, double-height hall over ground floor shops, with main entrance under a tower on the Harrow Road. The tower is square at the base and rises to an octagonal section with tiled pyramidal spire. The hall is gabled with a pair of tall pointed windows on the Harrow Road elevation. Ornamental cut brickwork in gable with panels over window heads. Decorative terracotta panel carries the Company name. The return front towards First Avenue is divided into five bays, with tall single pointed windows, by buttresses above the shop piers. There is a subsidiary entrance and gable at the north end. INTERIOR. Hall: fine timber hammerbeam roof Stage at north end with mural depicting artisans at work in the spandrel above; gallery at south end. HISTORICAL NOTE: The hall was built as a centre for the social life of the Queen's Park Cottage Estate, for meetings, non-alcoholic refreshment, entertainment, education etc; with shops below for the use and profit of the community as a whole. A landmark in a pioneering philanthropic housing estate. SOURCES: Buildings ofEngiand London 3: North-West p.699.
Listing NGR: TQ2457582358
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433813
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: London 3 North West, (1991), 699
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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